WooCommerce Vs Shopify – Which Is Best Ecommerce Platform

Both platforms over a long period have proved there worth and offer a huge amount of features, which can help you create an awesome website, and helps in ranking quickly on search engines.

Themes

There is a huge variety of themes available on both platforms, which helps you in creating a great user-friendly website, which in return helps you with conversions.

With all its features, themes, integration with payment gateway and much more the question remains which is a better platform.

Having used both extensively, I would any day prefer WooCommerce for the flexibility, more options and the best of all being completely FREE. If you are a beginner and wants to build a website DO NOT, waste your money on Shopify.

Everything in Shopify is paid even the Plugins, which are free in WooCommerce, paid in Shopify, and are called apps.

Drop Shipping

All lot of drop shipping companies has done tie up with Shopify and lets you integrate with Shopify in minutes however; the cost involved is not worth it.

If you are an old player with good investment and looking to build a website on E-commerce platform than Shopify is highly recommended as there is professional support offered by them, which can help you in any situation.

If you are going to have a website, which will never, exceed 5000+ products than stay with WooCommerce as it is built on core PHP that is very secure for support there are a huge number of developers easily available in the market, which can do any sort of customization to the platform.

Please see below the chart offering insight into both the platforms:

Most of us are creating an E-commerce website for the first time and investing heavily in technology does not make senses, this technology is also offered at minimal or no cost using WooCommerce. You can spend the technology cost on marketing which will lead to conversions and generate revenue from the website.

If you have to at any time upgrade the technology only go for upgrading the Hosting or adding new features on the website which can create ease of access for your users.

If you building an E-commerce website than WooCommerce is the best bet, you can also read about how to build a WordPress & WooCommerce website and “Free Hosting” on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which can further save hosting money as well.

I am also sharing a chart where you can see the pricing for Shopify if you wish to proceed with it as Shopify developers have done some credible work in offering a complete integrated platform and asking money for it is well worth it.

I hope this article helps you in making a decision on selecting the correct E-commerce platform for your website; I did not share much technical insight into the technologies as want to share my experience when creating an E-commerce website.